Comments on: Just What Is the Open Web? http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/24/just-what-is-the-open-web/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:11:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Kevin Dangoor http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/24/just-what-is-the-open-web/#comment-766881 Kevin Dangoor Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:59:50 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2696#comment-766881 Good timing for this topic. The Open Web Foundation has been announced. Sounds like a good place to get Open Web defined <em>and</em> to potentially keep that definition rolling forward as new technologies come up. Good timing for this topic. The Open Web Foundation has been announced. Sounds like a good place to get Open Web defined and to potentially keep that definition rolling forward as new technologies come up.

]]> By: Kevin Dangoor http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/24/just-what-is-the-open-web/#comment-766826 Kevin Dangoor Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:05:14 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2696#comment-766826 Though I can't say authoritatively, I'd imagine that "Open Web" originated as a term to differentiate HTML+CSS+JavaScript (the standards supported by multiple browsers/vendors/tools, etc.) from things like Flash. Back then, the definition didn't really need any more precision, because Flash (and other various formats that were less popular than Flash) was clearly a single vendor, closed source, proprietary system. Today's ecosystem is more complex, given the varying states of openness of Flash, Flex, Silverlight and other tools. The non-HTML+CSS+JavaScript tools are more open than they were when the term "Open Web" came along. Hence the desire to put a more precise definition on "Open Web" today. Brad's recent post has some good comments that are heading in the direction of a working definition. Though I can’t say authoritatively, I’d imagine that “Open Web” originated as a term to differentiate HTML+CSS+JavaScript (the standards supported by multiple browsers/vendors/tools, etc.) from things like Flash. Back then, the definition didn’t really need any more precision, because Flash (and other various formats that were less popular than Flash) was clearly a single vendor, closed source, proprietary system.

Today’s ecosystem is more complex, given the varying states of openness of Flash, Flex, Silverlight and other tools. The non-HTML+CSS+JavaScript tools are more open than they were when the term “Open Web” came along. Hence the desire to put a more precise definition on “Open Web” today.

Brad’s recent post has some good comments that are heading in the direction of a working definition.

]]> By: brothercake http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/07/24/just-what-is-the-open-web/#comment-766444 brothercake Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:35:46 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=2696#comment-766444 I can't help but wonder whether terms like this come from in the first place - how can a term enter currency without a clear sense of its meaning? Isn't its meaning just, whatever the person who first coined it meant? I can’t help but wonder whether terms like this come from in the first place - how can a term enter currency without a clear sense of its meaning? Isn’t its meaning just, whatever the person who first coined it meant?

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